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      <img src="../logo.svg" class="logo" alt=""><h1>utility to convert aliases to proper colnames of map_headernames used by varinfo() and fixcolnames()</h1>
      <small class="dont-index">Source: <a href="https://github.com/USEPA/EJAM/blob/HEAD/R/fixmapheadernamescolname.R" class="external-link"><code>R/fixmapheadernamescolname.R</code></a></small>
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    <p>utility to convert aliases to proper colnames of map_headernames
used by varinfo() and fixcolnames()</p>
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    <h2 id="ref-usage">Usage<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#ref-usage"></a></h2>
    <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span><span class="fu">fixmapheadernamescolname</span><span class="op">(</span></span>
<span>  <span class="va">x</span>,</span>
<span>  alias_list <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/list.html" class="external-link">list</a></span><span class="op">(</span>rname <span class="op">=</span> <span class="st">"r"</span>, longname <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"long"</span>, <span class="st">"longnames"</span>, <span class="st">"full"</span>,</span>
<span>    <span class="st">"description"</span><span class="op">)</span>, shortlabel <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"short"</span>, <span class="st">"shortname"</span>, <span class="st">"shortnames"</span>, <span class="st">"labels"</span>,</span>
<span>    <span class="st">"label"</span><span class="op">)</span>, acsname <span class="op">=</span> <span class="st">"acs"</span>, apiname <span class="op">=</span> <span class="st">"api"</span>, csvname <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"csv"</span><span class="op">)</span>, oldname <span class="op">=</span></span>
<span>    <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"original"</span>, <span class="st">"old"</span>, <span class="st">"oldnames"</span><span class="op">)</span><span class="op">)</span></span>
<span><span class="op">)</span></span></code></pre></div>
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    <h2 id="arguments">Arguments<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arguments"></a></h2>


<dl><dt id="arg-x">x<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-x"></a></dt>
<dd><p>character vector of colnames of map_headernames, or aliases like "long"</p></dd>


<dt id="arg-alias-list">alias_list<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-alias-list"></a></dt>
<dd><p>optional named list where canonical names (colnames in map_headernames)
are the names of vectors of alternative names</p></dd>

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    <h2 id="value">Value<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#value"></a></h2>
    <p>vector where aliases are replaced with actual colnames and unmatched ones left as-is</p>
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    <h2 id="see-also">See also<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#see-also"></a></h2>
    <div class="dont-index"><p><code><a href="fixnames_aliases.html">fixnames_aliases()</a></code></p>
<p><code><a href="varinfo.html">varinfo()</a></code> <code><a href="fixnames_aliases.html">fixnames_aliases()</a></code></p></div>
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    <h2 id="ref-examples">Examples<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#ref-examples"></a></h2>
    <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span>  <span class="fu">fixmapheadernamescolname</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html" class="external-link">c</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">'long'</span>, <span class="st">'csv'</span>, <span class="st">'api'</span>, <span class="st">'r'</span><span class="op">)</span><span class="op">)</span></span>
<span></span></code></pre></div>
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